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Monday, 21 May 2007

Soft power face-off: Ferguson v. Nye

Not everyone is a fan of ‘soft power’...



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Labels: blog post series, charts, foreign policy, Joseph Nye, Niall Ferguson, politics, soft power, The War on Terror and the Fire Paradox

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